Sentences with phrase «more charter companies»

In conclusion, she asks those reading her post to «not even consider» using Talon Air, and instead to turn to one of the «many more charter companies available.»

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Privately - held companies are often more difficult to research, but every corporation has to be chartered in a particular state and the filings of state corporation records are public documents.

Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm is a «brilliant move» that will make the company a lot more profitable, says Edward Snyder, analyst at Charter Equity Research.

According to CVI ² charter member and pioneering industry tracker and media company Global Corporate Venturing, today worldwide there are more than 1100 corporations with corporate venture programs, more than 475 of those having formed since the beginning of 2010.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

The working theory is that by aggregating TV networks, a merged company could bargain for more carriage fees from the pay TV distributors like Charter or Comcast.

We supervise state chartered banks that choose to be members of the Federal Reserve System, trust companies, data processing centers that service state member banks, and bank and financial holding companies, which control one or more commercial banks.

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is having a strong day, with shares up more than 4 percent after Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) CEO Thomas Rutledge said in a UBS conference that he had advanced discussions with the company over set - top box integration.

The Philadelphia Section of the IFT was chartered in 1945 and currently has over 300 members working from more than 100 companies.

We also want to see more companies going further than the basic RSPO standard by becoming independently verified against the new RSPO NEXT standard or the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) Charter.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Three people died and more than a dozen others were injured when a charter bus from a company with a bad history blew through a red light and smashed into the tail of an MTA bus in a Queens intersection this morning, according to officials and video.

All of them have received pay or political contributions from the charter school movement and / or testing companies and all of them have wholly endorsed more charter schools.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

The IBEW has taken issue with Charter's demand that the company pay less toward pensions and health benefits, while workers contribute more.

In my opinion, RIMB more than met all the criteria set up in its charter from the company.

If a company needs 30 principals, the average hire is more apt to resemble the typical principal than the renegade that a stand - alone charter school might seek.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

The for - profit companies that operate some charter and online schools take the idea a step further by arguing that private business models are more efficient than public school systems.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

Their plan is simple — more money for charter school companies — cuts to public school programs and higher property taxes for the rest of us.

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tCharter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tcharter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

The pro-Common Core, pro-Charter School group has even hired Malloy's chief adviser, as well as Malloy's former press secretary, to run their PR campaign in support of Malloy's plan to divert even more scarce public dollars to charter schools companies.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says the consequences of turning entire school districts over to for - profit charter school companies deserves more consideration from state lawmakers.

More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

Although Bernie Sanders has not published an education platform, I trust him much more than I trust Clinton to listen to teachers and put the public good (public schools) about companies that would profit from charter schools and such.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

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While leaving Connecticut's real public schools without sufficient funds, Malloy and Democratic legislators approved a deal to divert more than $ 100 million dollars this year to the companies that operate Connecticut's charter schools.

Charter Schools USA's senior director of education Billie Miller says the company has needed more data from the district to answer those questions.

It's of import to Cobey because K12, of course, is one of two companies operating similar, publicly - funded virtual charters in North Carolina, both of which experienced soaring dropout rates this year in their first eight months of operation while taking in more than $ 14 million in state funds this year.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

After prominent failures in Hartford, Conn., and Baltimore, private management companies have begun to focus more on charter schools, which usually are freed from many of the regulatory restraints that most public schools have to follow.

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

Demand for equipment to drive learning in the charter classroom could go unmet if schools have trouble partnering with companies to make technology acquisition more affordable.

And considering the Connecticut Commissioner of Education's close relationship with Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company that owns 20 schools in Connecticut and New York, the standard for charter schools is not only more lenient but rewards failure.

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.

For example, when a nonprofit charter school operator hires a for - profit company, it sometimes pays the for - profit more than 95 % of the tax dollars it receives from the state.

As the Charlotte Observer reports, in the first four years after the state's cap on charters was lifted, «the number of North Carolina charter schools run by a for - profit management company... more than doubled, from eight to 17.»

According to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pCharter Schools (NAPCS), a charter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pcharter advocacy group, just under 13 percent of charters are run by for - profit companies, though in cities like Detroit, more than 80 percent of charter schools are run by for - pcharter schools are run by for - profits.

(Also see: Ex-principal of Franklin Towne charter files whistle - blower suit — Philadelphia Inquirer) It is hard to tell what the outcome of this case was but due to the nature of the allegations, it is incumbent on the district to know whether any settlement resulted and for what kinds of alleged actions before considering handing over more students to this company.

Deborah Quazzo, a member of the Chicago Board of Education, voted to support charter networks that «have given more than $ 1 million in business to companies in which [she] has an ownership stake,» reports the Chicago Sun - Times.

-LRB-...) Lehner's bill would require any company receiving more than 20 percent of a charter school's state aid to provide more detailed information to the state on how the money is spent, «including the nature and costs of the goods and services it provides.»

Some charter - school regulators — recognizing their limited authority over charter - management companies — are beginning to push back, requiring schools to get more information from management firms.